Quotes about Words

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Words matter deeply to the authors of Proverbs, for they see words as powerful vehicles of good or evil, just as much so as actual deeds.

Our thoughts become our words, our words become our beliefs, our beliefs become our actions, our actions become our habits, and our habits become our realities.

The disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

Choice words in precise order bear power unmatched by amplified images and sound and technical magic (Writing for the Soul, p. 54).

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do.

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

Yelling is a form of publishing.

Apparently Washington's adage of "deeds not words" was utilized to convey to his grandson the importance of the Sabbath, the significance of regular worship, and the value of the reading of the scriptures. Conway's charges are eviscerated in light of the testimony of the one who was allegedly not evangelized by Washington!